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Meanwhile, here are the latest blogs. They can also be found on the Bug Squad blog, Facebook, at https://www.facebook.com/TheBugSquad

March 28, 2025: Congrats to Douglas Walsh, PBESA's Woodworth Award Recipient

March 27, 2025:  In Support of Honey Bees

March 26, 2025: Remembering Professor Harry Lange and Helping the Bohart Museum of Entomology

March 25, 2025: Hammock, Morisseau to Give TEDX Talk at School of Medicine Research Celebration

March 24, 2025: A UC Davis Living Lab: Which Plants Are Best for Your Garden?

March 21, 2025: 'Fantastic' and Much Needed Workshop: Fruit Fly ID

March 19, 2025: Thinking Pink on the First Day of Spring

March 18, 2025: Dad's Bees

March 17, 2025: Don't Pinch Me! I'm Green

March 14, 2025: CC Edwards Elected Chair of Youth Professionals, American Mosquito Control Association

March 13, 2025: Bohart Scientists Explain Venomous vs. Poisonous

March 12 2025: A Beautiful Bombus at Bodega
 
March 11 2025: Learn How Two UC Davis Entomologists-Artists Fuse Art with Science
 
March 10, 2025: How to Color a Frog: the Boh-Art Way
 
March 7, 2025: Bohart Museum Open House: Hopping with Poison Dart Frogs
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SWEAT BEE, a female Svastra obliqua expurgata, forages on a purple coneflower at the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven in this autumn scene. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Bring on the Asters

February 3rd, 2011
Bring on the asters. When you visit the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.
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RESEARCH ENTOMOLOGIST Roger Vargas of the USDA-ARS will speak from 12:10 to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 9 at the University of Caifornia, Davis. His topic: fruit flies. The lecture is from 12:10 to 1 p.m. in 1022 Life Sciences Addition, corner of Hutchison and Kleiber Hall drives.
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In the Thick of Fruit Flies

February 2nd, 2011
Roger Vargas is in the thick of fruit-fly research and he probably wishes those insects would thin out. He's a research entomologist at the USDA-ARS Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center in Hilo, Hawaii. For those who don't deal with acronyms, that's the Agricultural Research Service of the U.
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HONEY BEE could be our groundhog weather predictor here in California. If she exits the hive and visits the cape mallow in the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis, spring will come early. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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About that Groundhog...

February 1st, 2011
Tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb. 2) marks the 125th annual Groundhog Day celebration in Punxsutawney, Pa., and you know what that means. That's when a groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil emerges from his burrow and predicts the weather. If he sees his shadow, six more weeks of winter.
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CABBAGE WHITE BUTTERFLY--the first of 2011 in the three-county area of Yolo, Solano and Sacramento. Art Shapiro found this one today (Jan. 31) in Suisun City, Solano County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Behold the Cabbage White!

January 31st, 2011
Nothing but net? No, no net. We have a winner in the 40th annual Cabbage White Butterfly Competition, sponsored by butterfly expert Art Shapiro, professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California, Davis.
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INTRICATE PATTERN of a spider web on nectarine branches. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Nature's Suspension Bridge

January 28th, 2011
Nature's suspension bridge--that's what the spider builds. With the unseasonable warm weather and crafty spiders at work, can spring be far behind? Spiders are already building their webs on fruit trees yet to bud and bloom.
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